Sanofi workers strike in France

pharmafile | January 7, 2011 | News story | Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, Sanofi-Aventis, strikes, unions 

Sanofi-Aventis workers have gone on strike in France as the company looks to cut jobs.

Nine unions representing workers at Sanofi said the French pharma firm is looking to cut nearly 1,000 jobs, having already reduced staff numbers by 2,700 jobs since the 2005 merger between Sanofi and Aventis.

The unions said in a statement: “These job cuts are part of a vast 2 billion euro savings plan that group management wants to achieve by 2013. All the group’s businesses are affected.”

A spokesman for Sanofi said in an e-mailed statement it had not announced any new job cuts since introducing the re-organisation of its French commercial division in December that would lead to 575 out of 2,800 jobs going by the end of this year.

A spokesman told Reuters that the unions had reached the figure of 916 by adding to this 260 unoccupied posts and 81 staff who will be expected to change role.

Industrial unrest has also recently been seen at AstraZeneca. Workers at that company’s Macclesfield manufacturing site went on strike last year over changes to the company pension plan.

Ben Adams

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